Oh, that's a great one, Conan. And I am sure that the sweet and refined editor at SoS was SHOCKED (SHOCKED, I tell you!) at such an obscenity appearing on a blog--after all, we all know that journalists NEVER curse, dainty folk that they are. And the word is not in common parlance and NEVER used on the BBC (except sometimes).

According to Spooks, Lord Foulkes is going to be retired, and emotional, and if looks as if Murphy will be taking over as the "senior Labour spokes-person" who will be employed as the rent-a-quote for the Hootsmon's churnalists.